VIDEO - Where do the leaves go?

IVY JACOBS PHOTO - City employees were busy picking up leaves Thursday morning. Fred Dowell drove the truck with the 20-foot trailer that held the "vacuum" attachment and the container for the leaves, while Earl Adamson walked alongside to help rake the leaves to the vacuum attachment.

Brazil City employees were out early Thursday, Nov. 19, picking up leaves in the northwest quadrant.

Where do the leaves go?

Brazil Street Supervisor Brian Bemis said there are 50-60 trailers filled with leaves each fall, and they are taken to Yankee Rose Gardens and Landscape in Brazil to be turned into compost.

IVY JACOBS PHOTO - City employees were busy picking up leaves Thursday morning. Fred Dowell drove the truck with the 20-foot trailer that held the "vacuum" attachment and the container for the leaves, while Earl Adamson walked alongside to help rake the leaves to the vacuum attachment.

The remaining schedule is:

Northeast quadrant: Nov. 16-20

Northwest quadrant: Nov. 23-30

IVY JACOBS PHOTO - City employee Ben Jordan was helping collect leaves into piles Thursday morning.

The crew consisted of:

Josh Backfish was operating the 2-year-old Tool Cat, a multitool street cleaning piece of equipment.

Ben Jordan was walking along the streets operating the leaf blower.

IVY JACOBS PHOTO - City employee Josh Backfish operated the 2-year-old Tool Cat, a multitool street-cleaning piece of equipment, to sweep up piles of leaves along Kruzan Street Thursday morning.

Fred Dowell drove the truck with the 20-foot trailer that held the "vacuum" attachment and the container for the leaves, while Earl Adamson walked alongside to help rake the leaves to the vacuum attachment.

Winter Preparations

Bemis also said the department is getting ready for the arrival of Old Man Winter.

Deliveries of salt and sand have already arrived to make 800 tons of the mixture used when the 52 miles of roads in city limits become snow-covered or icy this winter.

VIDEO: Times Reporter IVY JACOBS took this video of the Brazil City Street Crew working along Kruzan Street to pick up leaves. Fred Dowell drove the truck with the 20-foot trailer that held the "vacuum" attachment and the container for the leaves, while Earl Adamson walked alongside to help rake the leaves to the vacuum attachment.